After that Mazhar ul-Haq Sahib, a well-known
poet living somewhere outside [Lucknow], who now by chance had come
into the mushairah-- he recited this nazm:

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==A nazm ('arrangement') is a 'poem' pure and simple; its name claims
the freedom to make formal choices at will, and on the fly. But this
one is really more like a masnavi in form, and has a very strict meter
(#14/15 in the *meter
list* ).

15) where in their divans are such 'lancets'?
by the Lord, you are better than they!

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=='Lancets' (named after a blood-letting tool) were particularly sharp,
excellent, 'pointed' verses; Mir's divan was said to contain a specific
number of them, though not always the same number (or the same verses).